Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIYou can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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Travel teaches toleration.
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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
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